Bag-holder



No. 626,788. v Patented lune l3, I899.

L. KLEIBER.

BAG HOLDER.

(Application filed Api. 30, 1898.)

( o Modal.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BAG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICAJION forming part of Letters Patent No.

626,788, dated June 13, 1899.

' Application filed April 30; 1898. Serial No. 679,371. (No modal.)

T roll who7n it may conccrn:

Be it known that I,LOUIS K'LEIBER, a citizen 01: the United States, residing at Nepenskun, in the county of W'innebago and State of Wisconsin,have invented a new and useful Bag-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in bag-holders.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of bag-holders and to provide a simple and inexpensive combined bag-hold er and truck adapted for use,in mills, granaries, feed-stores, and analogous places, and capable of enabling a bag to be conveniently filled and moved from one place to an" other.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combinacion and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drvvings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bag-holder constructed in accordance With this invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail perspective view illustrating the construction of the fastening devices for securing a bag or sack to the vertically-adjustable bagholding device.

Like nnmerals of reference designate correspondin g parts in all the figu res of the drawings.

1 designates a truck adapted for carrying bags of grain and designcd to be constructed of any suitable material and composed of side bars 2, suitably connected and braced, an extended front 3, adapted to form a base, and standards 4:, depending from the front ends of the sides when the truck is in its normal position. The extended front is adapted to form a base when the truc]; is arranged in a verticalposition, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the accompanyin g drawings, and it is of sufficient size to maintain the truck in such position while a bag 5 is being filled.

The sides 2 of the truck-frame are supported by braces 6 and are connected ,by transverse bars 7 and S, and the standards 4: are provided at their lower ends With bearings for the reception of the axle .9, upon Which the truck- Wheels 10 are mounted.

The frame of the truck is provided With a longitudinal guide composed of spaced longitudinal bars 11 and receivpga shank or stem 1 2 of a substantially semicylindrical bag-holding device 13, which forms a hopper and is adapted'to hold the mouth of the bag open during the operation of filling. The bag-holding device consists of a snbstantially semicylindrical plate of sheet metal or othersuie able material, and the stem, which is adapted to slide freely in the opening between the guide-bars 12, is provided near its upper and lower edges with transverse pins 14 and 15 or other suitable fastening devices, which are located at opposite sides of the guide. The pins 14 and 15 engage the front and rear faces of the guide and are adapted to bind against the same sufliciently to maintain the bag-hold- 1ng device at the desired adjustment.' The Vertical adj ustment of the bag-holding device greatly facilitates the filling of the bag, as the device can be lowered to the bottom of the guide and the bag partially filled, after which the device can be gradnally raised 11ntil the bag is completely filled.

The mouth of the bag is arranged on the outer face of the bag-holding device, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings, and it is secnred in such position by means of pivoted lockingplafes 16, mounted on the inner faces of the bagholding device, at the ends thereof, and coperating with horizontal notches or recesses 17 of the same. After the bag has been arranged on the eXte rior of the bag-holding device it is drawn into the notches or recesses 17 at the ends thereof and the pivoted plates are moved doWnward, thereby confining the bag in the recesses. The lower end or engaging portion of each pivoted plate is bent in opposite di After a bag has been filled the operator takes hold of the handles of the truek and pulls the device downward, so that it will be supported upon the truck-wheels, and the deviee is then adapted to be used similar to an ordinary truck.

The invention has the following advantages: The combined truck and bag-holder is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, 5

combination With a support of a bag-holder and the bag-holding devioe, which forms a hopper and holds the mouth of the bag open, is capable of vertical adjustment and adapted to enable a bag to be. partially filled and then gradually raised until the filling operation is complote.

Changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention. j

WhatI claim is l. A device of the class described comprising a truc]; having an extended front portion 3 for the reception of a bag and provided with side bars, transverse bars 7 and 8 conneotiug the side bars, the parallel longitudinal bars 11 mounted on the transverse bars, a bagholder provided with a stem arranged in the opening between the bars 11 and adapted to be raised and lowered, and the transverse stops or pinscarried by the stem and engag a horizontal position, and adapted to be disengager] from the said bars 11 by.tilting the bag-holder, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the class described, the

adapted to receive a bag and provided with a recess into which the bag is designed to be drawn, and a plate pivotedto the bag-holder {adjacent to the reeess and provided at its engaging end with oppositely-disposed fianges located at the inner and outer edges of the plate, the innex fiange being adapted to engage the bag and the enter fiange'forming a stop for limiting .the swing of the pivoted plate, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 1ny own I have hereto aflixed 1ny signature in in the presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS KLEIBER.

VVitnesses:

JOHN J. Woon, J11, CARRIE. B. VVOOD. 

